I launched Anony Botter — a free Slack bot for anonymous messages and polls — as a side project in early 2023. Three years on, it has grown into a real product. Here's what it does today.
Anony Botter lets your team send anonymous messages, run anonymous polls, and reply anonymously inside Slack threads. The bot posts everything under its own account — Slack identity never enters the payload, so even workspace admins can't trace authorship unless audit mode is explicitly enabled and disclosed to every user.
Why teams pick it
Three things keep the experience workable in actual teams:
- True anonymity. The bot owns the post. Your Slack name and avatar never appear.
- Built-in moderation. Five-downvote auto-hide, one-click flagging, AI rewrites of hostile drafts before they post, banned-topic enforcement, and an approval queue with AI-generated review summaries.
- Free forever. A generous free tier (20 messages + unlimited polls, no credit card). Paid tiers are flat-rate per workspace — never per user.
Features
The bot now ships with nineteen surfaces — slash commands, thread pseudonyms, channel whitelisting, broadcast prevention, auto-translation, AI mod summaries, audit mode, and more.
The ones I lean on most: thread pseudonyms (stable aliases like "Curious Sparrow" plus an OP badge, so you can tell repliers apart without unmasking anyone), per-channel toggles for messages/threads/reactions, and the tone coach that intercepts hostile drafts with a softer AI rewrite before posting.
How it works
Install via OAuth, type /anony in any channel the bot is in, and it posts on your behalf. No SSO project, no new logins, no per-user seat math.
Pricing
Three tiers, all priced per workspace:
- Free — $0 forever. 20 messages then 3/day, unlimited polls, anonymous replies, broadcast prevention, channel coverage.
- Plus — $7/mo. Unlimited anonymous messages and replies plus community flagging and auto-hide.
- Enterprise — $26.99/mo. Approval workflow, banned-topic AI enforcement, tone coach, AI mod summaries, auto-translate, audit mode, channel whitelist.
A 500-person workspace pays the same as a 5-person one on the same tier — your headcount never moves the bill.
Tech stack
Built on Slack's Bolt JS SDK and Node, hosted on Vercel, with MongoDB Atlas for the small amount of data the bot keeps. The bot stores only the workspace ID, OAuth tokens, settings, and posted anonymous content. User profiles, emails, and DMs are never stored. Uninstalling a workspace wipes its record entirely.
Try it
Visit anonybotter.hamzawaleed.com and click Add to Slack to install. Then run /anony in any channel the bot is invited to. The free tier needs no credit card.